Byron - you still doing CrossFit?
After losing a lot of weight, I need something to get into shape and help me keep it off. Been looking at CrossFit and seem to recall you talking about it a couple or three years ago. You still doing it? How do/did you like it?
We have a CrossFit gym about a mile from here and their classes look like they are conveniently scheduled around the work day. Thanks!
I am not the man I used to be.....
Crossfit is an fabulous workout program based on the concept of neuro-muscular confusion.
http://www.crossfit.com/
Every workout of the day (WOD) is different and one will never plateau which is common in a more standardized workout/training program. Crossfit is not a bodybuilding muscle building workout. It is about getting you cock strong, work strong and able to handle your bodyweight. Very popular with highspeed military and the gogetters.
After my last Marine Corps Marathon (marathoning and CrossFit are mutually exclusive) I tried to get back into Crossfit but found that I hurt myself on a regular basis. Gave it hell for 4 to 6 weeks and then spring something...heal up for a month and get after it only to hurt myself again. I just could not handle the heavy weights over my head and the heavy deadlifts.
Currently, I do a combination of "Insanity" which is intervals of plyometrics and a program put on by a local trainer called "Warhorse" that involves exercise in sand and on unstable footing to develop strength in the core and all the little support muscles that are neglected in standard workouts. I like it. Lighter weights but many many reps.
I can't remember how old you are. My advice is to go for it and realize that you will have to take CrossFit at a gradient. Go slow and be careful. One of the most important things to accept about CrossFit is that you can get hurt quick. It is important to have a good focused trainer that will watch you and keep you safe. If you are deadlifting twice your body weight and get tired and sloppy and don't use proper form you will get hurt.
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That is where a focused coach makes all the difference. It is great to get into a group of real tough guys (and girls) for these workouts. These folks are a different breed of cat and will bring out the best in you. They are fun be around!
If you are in the 50ish range you should get onto a testosterone/HCG supplement program. Man to man, I'm telling you right now that if you get your testosterone level back to where it was when you were 17 it will change things.
I will be 60 tomorrow. To answer your question, I hurt myself with real deal CrossFit workouts. Here most of the CrossFit folks are 35 year old Majors and top Sergeants who have been in the gym an hour a day for the past 15 years and when I try to keep up with them I hurt myself. I just do not heal up like I did even 10 years ago.
Byron
......said an older guy at the gym.---..
by John Meeker 
, West End of Lake Erie, Wednesday, May 08, 2013, 09:54 (4221 days ago) @ Byron
"We have remember that our twenty-five year old minds, expect too much of our 65yr old bodies".
The three month-long "over-use to the point of damage" layoff I had, allowed about every muscle group to lose it's tone, and muscle weight was replaced by fat weight -- ie: skinny-armed, pot-bellied geezer who can't work hard and breathes with a slight wheeze.
Just had a very mild heart attack, that was caught in it's first stages. Stent now, and laundry list of meds 'forever'. The doc told me that my pipe-clogging cholesterol condition was "hereditary", and that no amount of exercise and conditioning will correct it, on it's own. Hence the full shelf of pills.Also, I'm not sure of the effect extra "T" would have on behavior? I'll have check with the Doc on that.
Congrats on returning to work-outs. Oddly enough, one the fittest guys I know for his age, sits on bicycle machine at the gym and reads the Wall Street Journal cover to cover while he pedals, hardly breaking sweat.
Don't buy that crap about testosterone...
by rob , Wednesday, May 08, 2013, 16:08 (4220 days ago) @ John Meeker
Negatively affecting the mood. It's 100% horse crap. I don't do steroids but I know a few folks who do. It's not the test that makes guys moody, its the post cycle that does it, especially when not doing proper PCT (post cycle therapy) when you stop taking the synthetic stuff while waiting for your own body to start producing again. I'm only 45 and not quite at the stage where I need it but when I do I'll sure see my doc. Proper hormone replacement will improve your mood rather than the detract from it. For now, at my age, heavy high intensity workouts will cause your body to amp up test/GH.
While my bod was up to berserker workouts,
by John Meeker , West End of Lake Erie, Thursday, May 09, 2013, 09:07 (4220 days ago) @ rob
the testy was evident, and 'addictive' - until the hip/glut crash. I liked working 'to the edge' and then, a bit beyond. During the three month layoff, was when I noticed the decline into advancing feeble-ness.
Good advice on the testy jumpstart, now that I can pick up workouts again. Most certainly a consult with the Doc,before anything else. Since the recent heart-attack/stent, there's a whole handful of scripts laden with dire warnings. Such paper piffle never mattered before, I must say. Since my life sorta hangs on the proper use of pharms for a while, some caution 'is advised'.
Thanks for that. Will be mos' happy when I can go beat up the gym and feel 100% life, from toes to brain, again.
PS -- that new breed of NCO gym rats is impressive. Leadership that can carry 'the load'. Proud to read that.